Glotka has no illusions about himself: he's a villain whose life has no value outside of its utility for those above him. Filled with loathing both for himself and for the rest of humanity, Inquisitor Glotka does not shrink from torturing former friends and framing innocent people at the request of his superiors. So when the mysterious First of the Magi recruits him to help foil the expansionist plans of his fellow Northern barbarians, Logen goes along with the plan in part because it gives his formless life some kind of purpose.Īt the other end of the moral spectrum we have Inquisitor Glotka, a crippled ex-hero turned torturer for the House of Questions.
Weary of his Conan-esque lifestyle, Logen has reached a point where he's willing make choices based on morals rather than survival instincts.
It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive" (p. "To fight my enemies I need friends beside me, and I'm clean out of friends," he observes when asked why he doesn't wreak bloody revenge on those who have wronged him. In addition to the feckless Captain Jezel, we have Logen Ninefingers, a notorious killer turned thinking-man's barbarian. But whereas Martin's novels feature huge casts of flawed-but-grand characters, The Blade Itself focuses on a relatively small cast of nobodies at the bottom of the food chain, people with little knowledge of (and in some cases, no interest in) the mysterious events overtaking their world. Fans of Martin's sweeping epic scope and tragic storylines will find much to admire in Joe Abercrombie's complex, gritty fantasy world, where shadowy political conspiracies vie with ancient evils as threats to the nation. I do not mention Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire lightly. But while the novel takes its jabs at epic fantasy, it avoids falling into either overdone parody or bitter satire, instead opting to reconstruct many of the heroic tropes it initially questions. None of the main characters are heroic in a traditional sense: the one who comes closest, handsome swordsman Captain Jezel dan Luthar, is a shallow, self-absorbed snob whose hobbies include cheating his friends at cards and avoiding hard work. Instead, the novel follows the misadventures of people who seem to have wandered out of a film noir version of George R.R. Wise Magi, stern knights and full-bosomed ladies can be found in its pages, but they're hardly the stars of the show. The Blade Itself is an epic fantasy that wears its cynical, postmodern heart on its sleeve. Utter shit." She slapped the book off the table and it tumbled onto the carpet, pages flapping. Magic, violence and romance, in equal measure. Full of wise Magi, stern knights with mighty swords and ladies with mightier bosoms.
"The Fall of the Master Maker, in three volumes.
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